LEAD068 - Foundations of Collective Leadership
1379755
Delivery Options
Blended Online
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Course Description
Reimagine leadership beyond individuals, while exploring leadership as a dynamic, relational, and inclusive process that draws on many ways of knowing. Through the lens of Indigenous and Western traditions, participants develop practical skills to build trust, share responsibility, and mobilize collective action in organizations and communities.
Explore your purpose and responsibility within the integrated ecosystem that is collective leadership, sustained through and across generations. Through self-awareness, reflective practice, and systems thinking, you will prepare to lead collaboratively, sustainably, and with cultural humility in today’s complex world.
Course Outline
- Examine the historical and contemporary foundations of collective leadership, contrasting individualistic and collaborative paradigms from both Western and Indigenous worldviews.
- Explore key teachings from the Nahua (Aztec) people, First Nations elders and diverse global traditions that illuminate the interconnectedness of people, land, mind, body, and spirit.
- Engage in community learning, intergenerational learning and practice inclusive facilitation, deep listening, and constructive feedback.
- Design, initiate, and sustain collective action by co-creating shared visions and actionable goals with others.
- Apply tools such as appreciative inquiry, systems mapping and consensus building.
Learner Outcomes
- Clearly define and distinguish between individual and collective leadership models
- Critically compare Western, Indigenous, and other global perspectives on leadership, and explain how these paradigms shape organizational and community practices, relationships, and outcomes.
- Reflect on your own leadership style, strengths, and biases using tools such as the Medicine Wheel, and identify areas for continued personal development in a collective context.
- Engage in team-based activities that build trust, shared vision, and collaboration, honouring different perspectives and navigating conflict constructively.
- Identify opportunities for positive impact in organizations, communities, or social issues and use collaborative leadership tools to design, implement, and critically evaluate solutions.
- Demonstrate active listening, encourage peer learning, provide constructive feedback to others, and integrate input to strengthen team outcomes.
- Interpret organizations and communities as nested, complex systems, assessing how collective leadership influences adaptability, stakeholder engagement, and resilience.
- Identify and use practical tools (e.g., networks, communication frameworks, appreciative inquiry, collaborative change models) to build relationships, mobilize groups, and lead collective projects from vision to implementation.
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Truth and Reconciliation at Work Micro-credential : Core Courses
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